July 2023
We started July in Fairbanks, Alaska, staying in a house near the airport. We didn’t find any exciting trails but had kept ourselves fit with a daily walk through local woods. Our first attempt was rather wet underfoot but managed to find a slightly higher route so stuck to that. On Sunday 2 rd , we went to the Museum of the North, which had some good exhibits about local wildlife, geology and people, including the tale of the Aleut people evacuated ‘for their own safety’ during WW2 and interned in logging camps that were never meant for year-round occupation. Elsie and bear looking pensive. 4th July, we went into the city centre and had a walk along the Chena river, with a lunchtime concert by local jazz musicians at Golden Heart Plaza with various memorials to local pioneers and commemoration of the lend-lease link to Russia in WW2. Locals at the park. Off again on the 6 th for the final stage of our trip North. We had been w...